Roaming Sparrow

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In October 2025, right before I moved to Cambodia, my sister Brenna and I walked Portugal’s Fisherman’s Trail — nine days end to end, about 75 kilometres of clifftop sand track down the wild Alentejo coast. It was harder than the elevation profile suggests, because most of it is soft sand and there is no shade. It was also one of the best things I have e...

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My travel in Greece came in early 2022, on a long slow route back toward Vietnam — and it turned into some of the best unplanned travel I have ever done. Two cities, mostly on foot, very little booked in advance: Athens and Thessaloniki. This is the index to everything I wrote while I was there, plus the planning I have done since for the rest of the cou...

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I live in Siem Reap. Not “visited once and wrote a Siem Reap Travel Guide” — I actually live here, in the little temple town in northwest Cambodia that most people breeze through in two days on their way to Angkor Wat. And that is exactly why I wanted to put this page together: a Siem Reap travel guide written by someone who calls it home, not s...

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For about six years, Vietnam was home. I landed in Hanoi, found my feet in Hoi An, and settled into Da Nang for the long haul — and somewhere in there this country stopped being a place I was visiting and became the place I lived. I rode its mountain passes, drank an absurd amount of its coffee, ate my way through its street stalls, celebrated its festiv...

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Some trips you plan for months. This one I fell into almost by accident, and a few years on it is still one of the most vivid stretches of road I have ever walked. I want to go back and remember it here — a yoga workaway in India that put me in a small Pune yoga studio for a few weeks, the family who took me in, and the strange, dusty, crowded, generous ...